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AI technology will sort through the waste and will remove the green food scrap bags from the rest of the trash.
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Shoreview’s public works director Mark Maloney on one of his Christian Mission trips from previous years.
Shoreview’s public works director retires after 29 years Mark Maloney made an everlasting impact on the Shoreview community in his role as the city’s public works director. But after 29 years at the helm Maloney officially retired at the end of July. Maloney says his decision to retire was because the time was right and there was someone capable on the team to step up and take his position. Maloney says Shoreview is a special place and “there isn’t another city I would have ever
wanted to work for. That’s why I was here for 29 years.” “I feel like I’m kind of going out on top. I don’t think it could get any better for me. It feels like I had a fairytale career here,” Maloney said. But it did not start out that way. In 1994 he quit his job at the city where he was working because it wasn’t going in the direction he had hoped. He saw an opening to work for Shoreview and joined the city works department. Maloney said working for the city of Shoreview lined up perfectly with the way he wanted to do his job.
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When Maloney arrived, the department did not work together because it was separated in two buildings. Twenty employees worked in the maintenance building while the 10 worked across the street in Shoreview’s City Hall. Maloney said it was a lot of work at first. The separation of buildings created “very different work cultures” and his priority was the department working together. Maloney says the city “is now in a much better place as far as having that whole group of people
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Installation of AI sorting technology to remove recyclables including food scraps and organic-rich materials found in waste has been completed at the Ramsey/Washington Recycling and Energy (R&E) Center. The new technology is estimated to divert annually a total of 60,000 tons of valuable material from landfills or incineration toward recycling, which is enough recyclables and food scraps to fill Allianz Field three times. The enhancements were funded in part through the 2020 Minnesota State bonding bill. The AI technology is the first step to begin a food scraps pickup program, which will be free to all citizens in Washington and Ramsey counties. Participating citizens will receive green compostable bags to deposit their food scraps and will throw away the green bags with their normal trash. Once the waste arrives at the R&E Center, AI technology will extract the green food scrap bags from the rest of the waste and will be sent to industrial compost facilities to be turned into soil products. Soon, according to R&E facility plans, food scrap bags and organic-rich materials will be processed through anaerobic digestion which will create renewable natural gas and valuable products for the community such as fertilizer and soil amendments. Both Ramsey and Washington counties have been a part of the R&E since the 1980s. In 2016, the two counties purchased the R&E Center before passing waste designation ordinances which required all waste in the two counties to be collected at the R&E facility.